Hi Terje, On Mon, 4 Mar 2003, Terje Eggestad wrote: > How do you design a protocol that uses multicast to send a request to do > work? > > All uses I can think of right now of multicast/broadcast is: > * Discovery, like in NIS. > * Announcements like in OSPF. > * update like in NTP broadcast > I know we are digressing away from main discussion ... The concept of reliable multicast is known to be useful. Look at(for some sample apps): http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/rmt-charter.html But we are talking about a distributed system in that context. Agreed, reliability and multicast do not always make sense. cheers, jamal - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
